AlfTales
Encyclopedia
ALF Tales is an animated American
series that ran on the NBC
television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series ALF: The Animated Series
. The show had characters from that series play various characters from fairy tale
s. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner relational to Fractured Fairy Tales.
Each story also typically spoofed a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis movie. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan would appear drawn as a TV executive (who introduced himself as "Roger Cowan, network executive") to try and brief ALF on how to improve this episode. For instance Cowan once told ALF who was readying for a medieval themed episode that "less than 2% of our audience lives in the Dark Ages".
on May 30, 2006 in Region 1 from Lions Gate Home Entertainment in a single-disc release entitled ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales. There is yet to be a complete series DVD of the whole series.
United States
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series that ran on the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series ALF: The Animated Series
Alf: The Animated Series
ALF: The Animated Series was an animated cartoon spin-off based on the live-action Sitcom series ALF. It premiered on September 26, 1987 and ran for 26 episodes.-Synopsis:...
. The show had characters from that series play various characters from fairy tale
Fairy tale
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...
s. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner relational to Fractured Fairy Tales.
Each story also typically spoofed a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis movie. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan would appear drawn as a TV executive (who introduced himself as "Roger Cowan, network executive") to try and brief ALF on how to improve this episode. For instance Cowan once told ALF who was readying for a medieval themed episode that "less than 2% of our audience lives in the Dark Ages".
Cast
- Paul FuscoPaul FuscoPaul Fusco is an American puppeteer, voice-over artist and character actor who is best known as the voice, creator, and puppeteer of ALF...
- ALF (Gordon Shumway) (voice) - Tabitha St. GermainTabitha St. GermainTabitha St. Germain is a Canadian stage actress. She has made the transition from stage work to voice work, and has since become one of the core female voice actresses working with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Anime :* .hack//Roots - Asta, Nazo Grunty* Black Lagoon -...
(as Paulina Gillis) - Augie/Rhonda (voice) - Peggy Mahon - Flo (voice)
- Thick Wilson - Larson Petty/Bob (voice)
- Dan HennesseyDan HennesseyDan Hennessey is a Canadian voice actor who, early on in his career, performed with a children's comedy troupe,...
- Sloop (voice) - Rob CowanRob CowanRob Cowan is a British music broadcaster and writer.Employed by music publisher Boosey & Hawkes for nineteen years in various capacities, his first record review was published in 1967. He edited CD Review for four years from 1985 and became a co-presenter with jazz and classical music writer Keith...
(II) - Skip (voice) - Ellen-Ray Hennessy - Stella the Waitress (voice)
- Noam ZylbermanNoam ZylbermanNoam Zylberman is a voice actor best known for the voice of Split Kit from Garbage Pail Kids and also the voice of Bentley Raccoon in the popular animated series The Raccoons from 1988 to 1990....
- Curtis (1988) (voice) - Michael Fantini - Curtis (1989) (voice)
- Don FrancksDon FrancksDonald Harvey Francks or Iron Buffalo is a Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician.- Life and work :Francks was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a drummer, poet, native nations champion, motorcyclist, author and peace activist...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Marvin GoldharMarvin GoldharMarvin Goldhar was a Canadian actor, best known for his voice work in animated programs and in made-for-TV movies.Among his voice credits include Cedric Sneer on The Raccoons, Mr...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Greg Swanson - Additional Voices (voice)
- Debra Theraker - Additional Voices (voice)
- Michael Lamport - Additional Voices (voice)
- Harvey AtkinHarvey AtkinHarvey Atkin is a Canadian voice actor who has worked in feature films and television. He has also done voice-overs, and has voiced animations.- Early life :...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Greg Morton - Additional Voices (voice)
- Stephen OuimetteStephen OuimetteStephen Ouimette is a Canadian actor and director, born and raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and a graduate of the University of Windsor...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Andrew SabistonAndrew SabistonAndrew Sabiston is a Canadian actor, theatre and television writer and lyricist. He went to St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia, graduating in 1982, the same year as classmate Leslie Hope. Both had been cast in their final year in the Paul Almond movie, Ups & Downs, which...
- Additional Voices (voice) - John Stocker - Additional Voices (voice)
- Stuart Stone - Additional Voices (voice)
- Chris WigginsChris WigginsChris Wiggins is an English actor.He started out as a banker in his home country before he began his acting career in Canada, where he moved in 1952....
- Additional Voices (voice) - Marilyn Lightstone - Additional Voices (voice)
- Richard YearwoodRichard YearwoodRichard Yearwood is an English-Canadian voice-over artist, director, producer, and character actor, who performs the voice of Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong Country, and other roles....
- Additional Voices (voice) - Eva Almos - Additional Voices (voice)
- Jayne EastwoodJayne EastwoodJayne Eastwood , also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress most famous for appearing in the 2002 film Chicago. She was one of the original cast members of the Toronto branch of The Second City, and was a semi-regular on SCTV...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Marla LukofskyMarla LukofskyMarla Lukofsky is a Canadian veteran stand-up comedian. She was one of Canada's stand-up pioneers in the 1970s, the same decade she discovered her talent and was a member of the Yuk Yuk Club....
- Additional Voices (voice) - Nick Nichols - Additional Voices (voice)
- Linda Sorensen - Additional Voices (voice)
- Don McManus - Additional Voices (voice)
- Hadley KayHadley KayHadley Kay is a Canadian-born voice actor who appeared in the first two Care Bears movies: as the voice of magician Nicholas in The Care Bears Movie and as the villain Dark Heart in Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. He also voiced P.C...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Robert BockstaelRobert BockstaelRobert Theodore Bockstael was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a businessman by career....
- Additional Voices (voice) - Luba GoyLuba Goy-Life and career:Goy was born in Haltern, Germany to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa. They emigrated to Canada in 1951. She is a graduate of the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, and later graduated from Canada's National Theatre School, before acting in theatre productions in...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Jeff McGibbon - Additional Voices (voice)
- Colin FoxColin Fox (actor)Colin Fox is a Canadian actor. His acting credits include playing Jean Paul Desmond and Jacques Eloi Des Mondes in Strange Paradise , as well as voice work in various animated series, and in other roles in film, television and on the stage...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Terri HawkesTerri HawkesTerri Hawkes is a Canadian actress. She first gained fame as a voice actress, her most definitive role being that of Sailor Moon for most of the first season, all of the second season, and all three movies...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Michael Longstaff - Additional Voices (voice)
- Keith KnightKeith Knight (actor)Keith Knight was a Canadian actor. He made his screen debut as Larry 'Fink' Finkelstein in the 1979 comedy Meatballs, voiced the White Rabbit in The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland, and voiced Pigface in the BBC drama Ace Lightning. He was also known for voicing Lowly Worm in The Busy World of...
- Additional Voices (voice) - John Koensgen - Additional Voices (voice)
- Ron RubinRon Rubin (voice actor)Ron Rubin is a veteran voice actor whose voice is most easily recognized as that of Artemis from the English translation of Sailor Moon.-Career:...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Peter KeleghanPeter KeleghanPeter Keleghan is a Canadian television actor, who has played roles in several popular Canadian comedy series.Keleghan's best-known roles have been film industry CEO Alan Roy on Made in Canada, low-IQ news anchor Jim Walcott on The Newsroom, and Ranger Gord on The Red Green Show...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Len CarlsonLen CarlsonLen Carlson was a Canadian voice actor on many animated television series from the 1960s onward, an occasional live-action TV actor, and a Kraft Canada TV pitchman during the 1970s and 1980s...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Alyson CourtAlyson CourtAlyson Stephanie Court is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the 1985 children's film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following year...
- Additional Voices (voice) - Darrin Baker - Additional Voices (voice)
- Catherine Gallant - Additional Voices (voice)
- Marlow Vella - Additional Voices (voice)
Episodes
- SEASON ONE
- Robin Hood - 9/10/88
- Sleeping Beauty - 9/17/88
- Cinderella - 9/24/88
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow - 10/01/88
- Jack and the Beanstalk - 10/8/88
- The Aladdin Brothers - 10/15/88
- Rapunzel - 10/29/88
- Rumplestilskin - 11/12/88
- The Princess and the Pea - 11/19/88
- John Henry - 12/3/88
- The Three Little Piggs - 12/10/88
- Alice in Wonderland - 12/17/88
- Peter Pan - 1/7/89
- SEASON TWO
- Hansel and Gretel - 9/16/89
- The Wizard of Oz - 9/23/89
- The Elves and the Shoemaker - 9/30/89
- The Emperor's New Clothes - 10/14/89
- Goldie Locks and the Three Bears - 10/28/89
- Little Red Riding Hood - 11/11/89
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 12/2/89
- King Midas - 12/9/89
DVD release
The first seven episodes were released on DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
on May 30, 2006 in Region 1 from Lions Gate Home Entertainment in a single-disc release entitled ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales. There is yet to be a complete series DVD of the whole series.